Beckham History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Early Origins of the Beckham family

The surname Beckham was first found in Oxfordshire. While the earliest record of the name lie in this shire, there is a village named Beckingham in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire and another village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire so named. De Bekingham was the first listing of the name in Lincolnshire. 1

Elias de Beckingham (d. 1305?), was an early English judge, placed on the commission of justices for Middlesex in 1274. “He received the commission of justice of assize in 1276. In 1282-3 he acted as keeper of the rolls of the common pleas, and in 1285 was appointed one of the justices of that bench. ” 2